Attorney Yoram Sheftel, former President Moshe Katsav´s new attorney,
announced he had submitted to the Supreme Court new findings which he
says corroborate his client´s claims and support his version of the
rape of a Tourism Ministry female employee in his Tel Aviv office in
April 1998.

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Sheftel said the new evidence,
obtained by Katsav´s family, consists of a video tape proving Katsav
was surrounded by security guards on the day in question and a photo
taken during an event which shows his mother was in attendance.

In November Israel´s Supreme Court ruled that Katsav raped a former
aide and molested two other women who worked for him, upholding his
conviction in a lower court and a seven-year jail term.

"He misused his high position and defiled the bodies and dignity of
(his accusers)," the three-justice panel said in a unanimous ruling
against Katsav´s appeal and ordered him to report to jail to begin
serving his sentence on December 7.

Katsav was president from 2000 to 2007. He was convicted of twice
raping an aide when he was a cabinet minister in the late 1990s and
sexually assaulting two other women who worked for him while he was
president.

According to the prosecution, Katsav raped the aide, known only
as ´A´, at his Tel Aviv office following an event organized by
Iranian-Israelis at the Ramat Gan National Park. He claims to have
been surrounded by bodyguards and said he drove his mother to her
home in Kiryat Malachi immediately after the event.
The court said his version of events had been "fundamentally
unreliable," but Sheftel said the new findings corroborate the former
president´s claims, adding that they constitute a "cast-iron alibi."

Katsav´s son, Ariel, said the video was obtained from the archives of
the Central Organization of Iranian Immigrants. "I´m working night
and day to obtain evidence that will reveal the truth. This video
proves that my grandmother was at the event and that my father was
not lying," he said.